As literary technology continues to evolve with the advent of the internet and other storytelling mediums, so too does mythology evolve within a parallel trajectory along with the narrative structures that contain their ...

Race is represented, constructed, and negotiated on television just as it is in the texts of more traditional literature. In the course of the cultural struggle for access to the expressive spaces that are television shows, ...

James Blue, Buffalo and the Complex Urban Documentary is a study of the life and achievements of the documentary filmmaker James Blue, particularly during his years in Buffalo, where he taught at the State University of ...

Criticism on queer cinema, with its emphasis on irreverence, pastiche, and gender construction, has lost its political efficacy because the aesthetic criteria and cultural conditions in which it is received are becoming ...

Ghosts, specters, and spirits visit frequently the pages of African American literature. In Haunted Heritage: History, Memory, and Violence in the Drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks I examine the question of ...

Reinvestigating the Benjaminian concept of the aura, which has been appropriated by art historians and critics, opens up another possibility that fully conveys the opportune issues we are now facing, thus giving us an acute ...

My subject of inquiry is Andrew J. Smitherman, an accomplished African American lawyer and journalist. I will examine his life and career as a successful newspaper editor and publisher during the early 20 th Century. Many ...

This dissertation focuses on literary and cinematic texts by twentieth century women writers and directors that narrate "lost histories," to use Nancy Peterson's phrase. More specifically, the texts under consideration ...